Word: sar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky and César Cui-five famed followers of Michail Glinka, who first turned his back on Western music, took inspiration from Russian legends, folk tunes...
...black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations." On a twelfth float was a large kettle decked with flags-"The Melting Pot." Beside the pot, as the Goddess of Liberty stood Miss Jean Redick, who also did service during the celebration as Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben and a Comanche maiden...
Climax of the celebration was the pageant "The Making of Nebraska" at Ak-Sar-Ben field with 1.300 performers. It began at the geological beginning. Several men carrying torches represented volcanoes and lava. Groups of maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled...
...secret: Josef Vis-sar-ee-o'-nuh-vich Zoo-gaash...
...history of the Ritz Hotels in America is concerned less with César than with his ablest lieutenant, Albert Keller. Large, red, round and genial, Mr. Keller went to the London Ritz when it opened about 19 years ago. Before that he had worked in hotels all over Europe; had even at the very first been a kitchen apprentice in the National Hotel at Geneva, which is now the Palace of the League of Nations. He was made manager of the New York Ritz when it opened in 1910. Every since he has directed the policy of this hotel...